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Leadership and health: Diagnostic Potentialities
Muhrová, Barbora ; Höschlová, Eva (advisor) ; Rymeš, Milan (referee)
The master thesis deals with connection of two important themes in a labour environment - leadership and health. The theoretical part is about defining the two concepts. In case of leadership, the main objective is to describe current roles, expected competencies of a leader and also a brief presentation of the main theoretical approaches to the leadership styles. Within health theme, working conditions usually mentioned in specialized literature as a risk to our health are described in detail. The outcome of these two chapters is to provide insight into the health-oriented leadership overlapping to describe abroad developed method Health-oriented leadership (HoL). Empirical part verifies basic psychometric data of the HoL method. The results of the research which was conducted on a sample of 76 followers and 17 leaders show that each version of the HoL method (StaffCare for leaders, StaffCare for followers, SelfCare) provides satisfactory item quality and sufficient reliability (Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.494 to 0.958). Goal of the validation research questions was to assess construct and criterion validity - the results are diverse and offers a number of correlations between versions of this method and different variables (e.g. a lifestyle, working conditions, health status, etc.). The...
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Leadership styles: theoretical approaches and style identification
Muhrová, Barbora ; Höschlová, Eva (advisor) ; Rymeš, Milan (referee)
This thesis deals with leadership styles, which is one domain of a leadership. The thesis is written in form of literature review. The first part of the thesis focuses on approaches to leadership styles, which are divided into four directions: personality of a leader, behavior of a leader, characteristics of followers and their relationship with a leader and contingency theories. Within the frame of single directions there are introduced main theories and findings. The importance of these theories and findings is supported by a number of studies in most cases related to the effectiveness of each approach. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to methods, which are used for the identification of the mentioned theories. Many questionnaires are followed by links to attachments, where are all the items at one's disposal. The thesis also includes a concept of correlation study, which was used in order to aim validation of one from the mentioned methods (LJI) and in general to identify leadership styles from a perspective of a leader and his followers in light of seniority of a leader and duration of team functioning.
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